A trucking company reported the theft from an industrial park Monday morning, just hours after a tractor truck was stolen a couple miles away. Police are trying to determine if the two thefts are related.

Lt. Michael Daley says the wine in the semi-trailer is worth about $50,000. He did not know where the truckload was intended for.

Daley says police believe the trailer was targeted, but they currently have no leads in the case.

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Thirty-five-year-old Marque Clark was convicted in a Lancaster court Tuesday of forcible rape, sodomy of a child and four other charges. He faces 75 years to life in prison when he's sentenced next month.

Prosecutors say that Clark forced the girl into the back on an empty movie theater at a mall where he raped her in August 2006.

A call to his public defender, Steve Kwon, seeking comment wasn't immediately returned.

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The American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday on behalf of Robert Rosebrock. The 67-year-old has protested weekly in a VA complex since March 2008 to protest the use of VA property for private events.

Rosebrock had displayed an American Flag at the protests, but recently began hanging it upside down as a symbol of distress. The lawsuit says VA police removed the upside down flag when Rosebrock refused to display it properly.

VA spokesman Phil Budhan in Washington says there was no immediate comment.

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Salazar announced Tuesday that growers in the farm belt south of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta will receive at least 25 percent of the water they have contracted for — an improvement on the 5 percent announced last month.

Some of the nation's most productive farmland has been idled because of three years of drought, as well as federal water restrictions to protect the native delta smelt fish species.

The shortages have led to high unemployment and economic distress in the San Joaquin Valley.

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Brazen weekend attacks on U.S. officials in northern Mexico near El Paso, Texas, left three people dead and a State Department warning against unnecessary travel south of the border. Earlier drug cartel killings in Tijuana near San Diego had led to previous advisories.

California State University, San Marcos is preparing a Web site warning and San Diego State University says it will e-mail students about State Department concerns.

Many college students will head out on spring break in coming weeks and Baja California towns such as Tijuana, Rosarito, Ensenada and San Felipe are traditional vacation destinations.

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MORENO VALLEY, Calif. (AP) — Two men are on trial in Riverside County for allegedly killing and burning a teenage runaway girl they feared was pregnant.

Prosecutor John Henry told two juries Monday that 16-year-old Kayla Wood pleaded for her life before she was stabbed 133 times and left naked in the bathtub of a burning Moreno Valley home in 2006.

Henry says 22-year-old Roman Aldana ordered the attack because he was afraid the girl was pregnant after she had sex with him and two others in an abandoned duplex.

Aldana and 18-year-old Jose Solorza are on trial for torture and murder. Solorza is accused of slitting the girl's throat and setting the fire. Both men have pleaded not guilty.

A third defendant has pleaded guilty to manslaughter.

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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Passengers were briefly stranded in the Transbay Tube after a Bay Area Rapid Transit train separated and left a four-car section behind.

BART officials say a nine-car train was traveling from Oakland to San Francisco in the tunnel that runs under the San Francisco Bay when the train somehow became separated at 6:23 a.m. Tuesday. Officials say the front five-car section was able to move forward, but the rear four-car section was left with no operator.

BART spokesman Jim Allison service throughout most of the system was delayed.

Another operator was brought in, and service resumed about an hour later.

Allison says officials are looking into what caused the train separation.

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Los Angeles foster mother and her boyfriend are under investigation in the death of a 2-year-old girl who was struck with a hammer.

Thirty-year-old Kiana Barker and 38-year-old James Julian were arrested last week for investigation of murder. They were released later and no charges have been filed but police continue to investigate.

Barker told investigators that she accidentally struck Viola Vanclief with a hammer while trying to free her after the girl became trapped in a bed frame but records show the child had several bruises. The girl died on March 4.

Barker worked for the nonprofit foster care agency United Care Inc., which contracts with Los Angeles County. State regulators decertified her as a foster parent last week.

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SAN DIEGO (AP) — Commuter trains carrying several thousand people are being delayed in San Diego as crews repair track damaged by a freight train derailment.

Spokeswoman Lena Kent says three empty cars of a Burlington Northern Santa Fe freight train flipped onto their sides at around 10 p.m. Monday.

Nobody was hurt but the derailment in a remote Sorrento Valley canyon damaged about 300 feet of track on the north-south line.

Amtrak and the North County Transit District say about 20 morning trains carrying more than 2,000 commuters have been affected Tuesday morning. Passengers are being bused between stations where the track was affected, causing brief delays.

Kent says crews hope to have service restored by about 4 p.m.

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Millions of southern Californians have been shaken awake by an early morning earthquake.

The magnitude 4.4 quake was centered about 10 miles east of downtown Los Angeles, near Pico Rivera. It happened just after 4 a.m.

There are no immediate reports of serious damage, but it presented a sharp jolt to slumbering residents in eastern Los Angeles County.

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